Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Chemistry
...you keep paying for it), argues Ana Cecilia Alvarez in “Matchmaking.” The author, who trained as a professional matchmaker, learned that “you never wanted the client to fall in love,...
Vibes
...rigid categories of the social, vibes travel far beyond their point of origin. Thanks to the derision they receive from the order of the tangible, they can pass unimpeded through...
The rich own watches
...diamonds suffocated ages ago. More years pass or have passed. The rich got left out in the rain. Their declawed cheetahs looted the armory and reclaimed their claws. They haven't...
Seeing it Hole
...infinitely closer to the truth.” To see “it” whole is not to remove incoherence in favor of a smoother meta-narrative, but rather to pass through and draw sustenance from the...
Quiet on the Border
...languages, but only to pass along other people’s words. In this sense, Makina doesn’t live on “the other side” of the border; she lives inside it. She is the border....
Warning
...pass, while many more stayed home in fear of vague threats of indiscriminate violence. Frightened citizens called the FBI to report out-of-state license plates, while others preferred taking to social...
The Resentment Machine
...with elite preschools now requiring that students pass tests and get references, before they can read or write. Many have lamented the rise of competition and gatekeeping in young children....
Kapow!
...to pass around. On the front, an oversized exclamation point slaps Marie Antoinette upside the head. There’s no summary on the back – just a foot kicking in glass. Reading...
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
...SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY. To criticize The Force Awakens for “recycling” the first three Star Wars movies—to complain that it’s “un-original” compared to that original work of genius—misses the point...
Aide-Mémoire
...so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double.” Pamuk is aware of our awareness these similarities, but refuses to confirm or deny the reality...
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Still Life
...tomato sauce, to which mushrooms may be added. Pass at the same time celery salad and quince or black currant jelly. Occasional vendettas notwithstanding, moonshiners generally conduct their lives peacefully....
(a jet lagged mess)
...the streets. There are traffic cops with assault rifles everywhere. Cops with guns are banal; surveillance is routine. To pass from the street into the inside, you must be screened....
Africa39: We Have New Names
...Africa39." But I'm not sure that Soyinka is the only one falling into that trap. And that this is a good thing. A chronological list of the writers and works...